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Ămāzon , ŏnis, f., = Ἀμαζών, plur. Amazones [a Scythian word of dub. signif.; acc. to an etymological fancy, as if from ἀ-μαζός, without breast; Just. 2, 4, relates that their right breast was removed in childhood, to enable them to handle the bow more conveniently],

I.an Amazon; and plur., Amazons, warlike women, who dwelt on the river Thermodon.